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Theatre of the Rule of Law
Transnational Legal Intervention in Theory and Practice
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series
Author: Humphreys Stephen
This book presents a sustained critique of 'rule of law promotion', revealing the myths and contradictions that pervade the field.
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Publication date: 11-2012
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Publication date: 11-2010
332 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 11-2010
332 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Theatre of the Rule of Law presents a sustained critique of global rule of law promotion - an expansive industry at the heart of international development, post-conflict reconstruction and security policy today. While successful in articulating and disseminating an effective global public policy, rule of law promotion has largely failed in its stated objectives of raising countries out of poverty and taming violent conflict. Furthermore, in its execution, this work deviates sharply from 'the rule of law' as commonly conceived. To explain this, Stephen Humphreys draws on the history of the rule of law as a concept, examples of legal export during colonial times, and a spectrum of contemporary interventions by development agencies and international organisations. Rule of law promotion is shown to be a kind of theatre, the staging of a morality tale about the good life, intended for edification and emulation, but blind to its own internal contradictions.
Introduction; Part I. Parameters: 'Rule of Law' as a Term of Art: 1. Society; 2. Economy; 3. Polity; Interlude. Precursors: colonial legal intervention; Part II. Theatre of the Rule of Law: 4. Market; 5. State; 6. Public; Conclusion.
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